Game Theory: You KILLED the Planet! (Subnautica)
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Well Theorists, it's finally happened. I'm doing a theory on Subnautica. This is something I've gotten messages about for YEARS and it was only a matter of time before it reached the top of my to-do list. So, I'm going to RUIN this game for all of you environmental hopefuls out there who have played through and thought you saved the day... because you DIDN'T!
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Credits:
Writers: Matthew Patrick and Tom Robinson
Editors: Tyler Mascola, Koen Verhagen, and Jerika (NekoOnigiri)
Assistant Editor: Caitie Turner (viridianrosette)
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"You killed the planet"
Me, systematically hunting down leviathans and punching them to death with a big stompy robot: No, I conquered it. There's only room on this world for one apex predator.
Pfft
Gargantuan leviathan family : hey
facts
”There is only one dominant lifeform in this universe“
yeah i nned to start doing that, i need to get to losst river but have almost lost my cyclopse 3 times, i am going to make a new seamoth just for killing liviathons
MatPat- “you killed the planet!”
Me- “ah yes, tell that to the big gun that shot us and our rescue ship down.”
The aliens killed the planet
@-Y O L A N D A- 🍎 holy god this bot is annoying
@@aydentew312 I agree. That Account should be Shameful, next time they're Bucking is in Hell XD
Well, when I remember correrly it was their fault in two ways. First, they started containment (yes that big turret). Second, they tried to rush the grow of Sea Emperor's babies. And I will never forget they called us primitive creatures. At least we don't steal someone elses DNA to improve ourselves.
Every alien killed the planet
MatPat: the crash likely killed all life near the aurora
Reaper Leviathans: "its about drive, its about power, we stay hungry we devour"
Also sandsharks
@@FishFactInc. When where realistic you have to think about the Distance of the back of Aurora to the save shallows and the stalker biom is not that faaar, and there is living all Kind of stuff😂 so this Theory is trash if you think about below zero where its pretty clear to see that theres nothing dead...
Erm, actually the crash zone was originally a part of the safe shallows and reaper leviathans are only over there because they are attracted to how much noise the crash made.
They definitely do devour…
also stalkers
MatPat: *exits the lifepod*
also MatPat: that's enough research
Accurate.
True
bro took one look and made a 20 minute video
Ok that's just hate
And that's really bad
As someone who played the game and loves it to death, this was more than a bit disappointing
Aren't the aliens called precursors? It's been a while since I have played the game but loved it to death, this didn't do it justice.
@@cerealbeforemilk3566 yes and they are near godly beings with insane technology and godlike bodies and if you havent already then go see what they looked like cuz it was revealed in below zero
@@cerealbeforemilk3566 officially they're Architects now, I think. But that's all Below Zero stuff, which was also great btw
@@infernoxus1432 I have been meaning to play bellow zero ever since, Subnautica was such an impactful game for me. So I naturally tend to avoid spoilers, and was convinced the ancient aliens were called precursors and not architects
P e n s i
"You killed the planet!"
Me with the haunting memories of the deep monsters and environments from the game: *good*
*That's where THEORISTS has gone:*
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Bruh.
@L U C K Y • why .... just ... why
@@A_Moron_Is_I Because bot
yeah maybe its for the best D:
MatPat: "At last! I have found the Scroll of Truth!"
Scroll of Truth: "Subnautica's in-game lore proves that the Aurora's crash will not cause the death of the planet."
MatPat: [yeets the Scroll] "Nyehh!!!"
"The game even has a LITTLE bit of story" -MatPat talking about Subnautica
True, i mean it is 50%
MatPat: "YOU doomed the world of Subnautica, so recklessly crashing down onto the planet. Shame on you!"
Anyone who actually played the game: "Well maybe I wouldn't have crashed down onto this planet if our ship wasn't SHOT OUT OF ORBIT!"
Yeah i dont think he played beyond the aurora explosion
EXACTLY!!
That, and the fact that there's no human savior complex thing going on...the game makes it pretty clear that the only reason you are able to solve the disease is because 90% of the work was done for you, and you just have a little more empathy for...the..end bit...we'll say, just in case anyone doesn't want real spoilers...
Also for the trash that pretty much everything is synthesized to order...I could be remembering incorrectly but didn't the vending machines even actually just basically digistruct everything Star Trek replicator style?
And maybe I wouldn't have crashed the ship if I were actually the pilot. Riley Robinson had 0 input over the ship's course or voyage, he was just the only one lucky enough to not die
@@Selena-hz8yc no
"You shouldn't crash here"
"Sorry, next time we will ask the alien weapons to not shoot us down"
Nah, just park it somewhere in the abyss, it'll be fine
@@Sniper_4_Life Genshin Impact Abyss be like "BY HOLY PROCLAMATION!"
Lol true
@@daysand123 ?
@@michaelstaab2872 guys lets just ask the giant alien gun to power down
Matthew Patthew: you killed the planet!
the entire subnautica community: you are not a clown, you are the entire circus
Maybe Matpat should have thought about this before doing this, I honestly don't know what was going through his mind unless he wanted to get insulted😐.
@@jediclarke 💯
Bro never left the safe shallows.
Bro never left the life pod
Original comment was:
Bro never left the trailer
I hope he dosent do a similar theory on any 2d Metroid games ending
Subnautica’s PDA never says their is any packaged food, it actually said that you could eat stuff like nutrient blocks as well as fruits and nuts
The water bottles in subnautica are actually not plastic. You only need a bladderfish to make a water bottle, meaning that the bottles are fully biodegradable.
Post crash water bottles you mean, those found on the ship prior to the crash are likely plastic.
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@@Dino_5500 Given how Corporate works, and the fact that fabricators 3D print *molecules*, the bottles most likely aren't plastics. It would be easier and quicker to make them out of pure cellulose.
Also the fabricators craft by recycling
@@Dino_5500 even if they were they were released in too small a quantity to have any major impact on the planet as such mat pat has made a fearmongering video
I love the consistency.
Same
Let me ask you something
did you get past the reaper leviathan?
Or know that there is a gun which shoots you out of orbit unconsensually?
Or did you make a theory on a game which you didn't complete :(
You also missed the big boy lore
Pretty sure he didn't even venture past the grassy plateaus, or even saw the sunbeam getting shot down
Yeah, I think this video was more of TeamSeas advertisement than a lore video.@@retro777br
@@retro777br Let alone the Degasii. He even uses footage of the Degasii when talking about the Aurora's impact, so he thinks the ships are the same. Clearly didnt 'deep dive and search' the games lore
It’s like… it would be AMAZING to see MatPat make a real theory but no.
The creatures in Subnautica are already used to (small amounts of) radiation. Here’s my proof: in most deeper biomes you can find radioactive crystals exposed underwater. The PDA talks about the radiation, and when you pick them up you can hear a Geiger counter make a radioactive sound. Reapers and Sandsharks thrive close enough to the Aurora even right after the explosion where the effects would be highly fatal for us without the proper equipment. Even jellyrays which have barely any protection behave normally in high doses of radiation. We might have killed a lot of the wildlife, but certainly not most of it.
“A bit of story”
*people who know the lore*
“Ah yes, just a bit”
@Racing Girl's 😘🤤 buddy I don’t think it’s private if your talking about your fun time in a public UA-cam reply section.
P.S There’s a reason why PH exist IDIOT GO POST THERE.
@@why2298 dont bother, its a malware bot
@@braindavidgilbert3147 I’m joking.
A story that he clearly didn’t actually bother to look into smh
@@imsad3630 “humans are destroying everything and have a saviour complex on subnautica!”
The players, who were shot down unwillingly, who have the most environmentally clean materials available, and who save the planet from complete extinction.
"You killed the planet"
Damn guess it's my fault that aliens built a giant gun to shoot ships out of orbit because they got too close
Ah yes totally my fault
Ah yes
yeah, it's obvious he just read the wiki
@@scp-wasp3463 bro the wiki would've given him far more than enough, this man looked at the game for 5 seconds and thought he could make an accurate theory on it. (Love ya Mat but this theory was ridiculous, a bunch of key lore points were tossed aside just for an advertisement.)
@@irradiatednova1589 that is true
Ah yes, you're so right, it's totally my fault that the Aliens built a giant cannon to shoot anything that gets close to the planet. I'm so sorry.
We shouldve told the aliens that we didnt want to get shot down, what a mistake
Actually Alterra has very advanced trash cans that completely breaks down waste to atoms and safely releases it into the atmosphere, so waste is a non problem if the aurora safely landed
Matpat: “the radiation would probably kill all the sea life near It instantly.”
Reapers: “Is that a challenge?”
Not only does it survive, it thrives 😅
reaper scary
It’s not funny
@@santiagoalvarez6085 bozo
:)
Matpat: the problem that the game doesn't address
Literally the game: "the aurora drive core will have devastating effects on the ecosystem if not contained within 24 hours"
Ikr
True
Yup
me feeling bad cause I didnt head right to the aurora to repair it til 4 or 5 days after it exploded... too busy exploring and making my base
@@aquamare1452 Yeah, those reapers are scary man.
matpat: it is your fault the ship got shot and it is you that you killed everyone and you decided to make the ship go there
me:controlled descent, the tower shot us down
"um actually i'm just a maintenance engineer for non-essential systems"
-Ryley Robinson
I feel like Alterra was probably able to find some kind of biodegradable polymer to use as a replacement for plastic. Especially since in real life we’re getting closer basically every day.
They probably use a variant of bladderfish from a safer planet
Yeah, the water bottles disappear after you eat them, and after the impact you use bladderfish to make water bottles, so chances are you eat the water bottle regardless
“The radiation probably killed the animals in the vicinity immediately”
Reapers, actively travelling en mass to the irradiated zone: *I have no such weaknesses*
Yea, they legit survive on radiation- Would you like to hear my theory about that?
@@_-NatureMations-_ no
@@twentypence9163 Ok... I was asking them Lol
@@_-NatureMations-_ what's your theory
@@mememan1546 Perhaps since they are only found places near electricity and radiation(The aurora, the dunes with it's alien things, and the mountains with the alien base) they were created by the Pre-cursors to suck up radiation from the Degasi ship's crash. They would absorb the radiation, but in living with so much of it, went blind from radiation and developed echolocation to help with the murky junk filled waters. They eventually escaped and repopulated, creating the ones we know now, and when the Aurora crashed three went from the dunes(This is why the dunes has the least) and started feasting.
"well beyond the scope of our crash site!"
*what's it gonna do, kill one of the infinite dead zone ghost leviathans?*
@J͓̽u͓̽l͓̽i͓̽a͓̽n͓̽a͓̽_______💋 bro what the hell
@@patrykschwarzer7313 I'm reporting the bot cuz why not?
Trueeeee
Is it just me, or are we in another Botpocalypse? Been seeing em a hell of a lot more lately
@@mistergameplayer4000 fr
as a subnautica fan, I am in pain watching this
Same
Subnautica is literally my favorite game ever, and this video absolutely infuriated me
“Humans are about to destroy the planet”
Well it was the architects who built the weapon that shot down the aurora in the first place soooo….
The player: Cures a virus that would've infected the entire planet and killed everything
MatPat: We are not a net positive for this planet
The virus had been there for over 1000 years, if all life hadn't died by that point it was never going to die form Kharaa
Are We... Really Cure The Planet?
*Or Just Ourselves?*
@@imashadow699 The planet... we release baby Emperor leviathins into the ocean which then released the weird cure blobs into the ocean.
@@GrandGourd I Thought The Blob Was Just For Us And They Won't Make It More 😅
@@imashadow699 Well, enzyme 32 is released by Juvenile Sea Emperor Leviathans, enzyme 32 being the cure for the Kharaa Bacterium.
if I remember correctly, the AURORA's captain PDA states he remained in the ship to land it in one piece ( aka controlled emergency landing )
Matpat just coming here to say that if you listen to the lifepod 19 second officer keen's voicelog the captain of the aurora says that he is attempting a controlled decent
the captain sacrificed himself to make a controlled decent and Matpat gave him no credit
Subnautica: has a lot of deep interesting lore
Matpat: you destroyed the planet by littering
seeing as the bottles can be made directly via a bladder fish show's it's biodegradable.
@@Sgtlake It seems the filtered water is made of the cellulose from the fish skin
It's made from the fish skin!? I think I'm going to be sick🤢🤮.
@@jediclarkewell, the description does say it isn’t vegan friendly.
@@dogmat8733 the water bottle also disappears after you drink the water…
"You KILLED..." I didn't kill nothing. The player wasnt the pilot and the Architects that created the weapon that shoot the Aurora, how could any human know about it?
@Videoms I wouldn't say noble, since they were only trying to cure the bacteria because it almost killed them all, and they found the bacteria when they were exploring and probably exploiting the resources of other planets
I don't see anyone else strapped with a biblical bill for the destruction of the Aurora and misuse of its materials. :P
Idk but still later updates to the game make you understand more about the architects.So i guess in a way subnautica really never told us about it.
@@nigelxd3735 actually, when playing the second game (spoilers)
Alan mentioned that the reason why they were looking for a cure was due to the fact that they’re bodies are made up of different species. If it can effect the architects … a galaxy can get infected as well. So I would say it is a noble cause, but of course more story stuff in the second game it is revealed why the research was messed up
Another thing that was missed, he gives a food calculation based on the fact that it has been dehydrated , yet I distinctly recall their being a cafe of sorts with items like soda and vending machines onboard.
Matpat: you caused the death of this planet.
The character who found the cure and stopped more leakage of radiation from the Aurora: am i a joke to you?
Matpat, a couple of minor things about the aurora. The crash size was probably affected by a few things not stated in the episode. The captain's log makes it clear that he was still steering the ship when it went down with the intent on trying to minimize damage to the ship. He knew it needed to remain intact for a rescue to be possible. This, combined with the fact that the game takes place on the top of an inactive volcano instead of the ocean bottom, could account for why the damage was as small as it was. The aurora might have hit water first and then hit ground after slowing down.
It also landed at on a bunch of holes to the lava zone.
@@striderpup1169 That got covered up, Luckily we still have access to reapers.
@@Selena-hz8yc why
Plus the aurora actually landed on an island and not in the water at all
Also, the crash was caused by the Cannon enforcing the quarantine and the filtered water is made of only a bladderfish, so it's safe to say that the containers are organic and biodegradable
Just play the darn game Mat-Pat, play the entire game, it’s amazing.
it's funny, the one thing he loves, is what he ignored here.
I played alitle dosa that qaunt
Yeah I literally just heard about this game let me write an entire theory on it
"the radiation probably killed the animals in the vicinity immediately"
Reapers: We march soldiers, WE MARCH ON
the game was like a century away from this day with all that advanced technology you'd think they already had a way of cancelling most major damages caused by impacts of their spaceships
Probably even more
Nearly the entire Subnautica community is now extremely dissapointed at you for this video. Good job!
Lol so true
yep, VERY disappointed
I don't think he played the game beforehand
I don't think he played the game beforehand
Peak GT was right when it started and it was all science based. The more he got into lore based theorys the more the show went down hill. Now this is what we have to deal with. And if you want scientific theories you have to listen to austin screeching for no reason.
You assume that the futuristic ship wouldn't have more food then just packaged powder meals? They literally can make a building in seconds and can probably cook just as easily.
They had nutrient blocks
Ya, this isn't his best theory. It's like he completely forgot the existence of the gun.
@@Sly-Moose in the game it tells you the only weapon you can make is the basic knife
@@Lodada He was talking about the orbital battery that shoot down the Aurora, Degasi, Sunbeam and Mercury II.
@@fatihdasavage3933 yeah, i didnt say that they didnt have packaged stuff like that, but i fail to believe that its all they ate.
What happened was that the pilot of the Aurora guided the aurora down to safely land it after the turret shot it down. It can be assumed that with how little damage there is, he landed it safely and successfully at the cost of his own life. There's actually an audio file that proves this, the captain talking to the co-captain about attempting to safely land the aurora whilst mid attempt.
the captain of the aurora tried to save the aurora by controlling the ships decent(making the damage not be as bad)
Hello Matpat, excuse my possibly clunky use of the english language.
I was really excited about a Subnautica theory because of the incredible lore this beautiful game has to offer. This however turned out to be more of a TeamSeas ad then a theory. Believe me when I say, I'm a big fan of your theories in general, but this time just a pinch of actual research lets it fall apart. Please see the following evidence:
The Impact of the craft being catastrophic:
Logs you can find in the game (e.g. Lifepod 19 Second Officer Keen's Voicelog) confirm that the captain of the Aurora took over manual control and tried to execute a controlled descent of the ship after the midair/orbital incident. As the Aurora was trying to use the planet for a swing-by-maneuver it's trajectory in relation to the surface would have already been flat and due to its speed the craft would be able to hold this flat approach for a while. This would lead to the Aurora hitting the planet's surface at a much more controlled angle and potentially lower speed in the end compared to a "falling out of the sky" scenario, and therefore much less damage to the geology around the crash site.
The waste of the Aurora being a danger to the ecosystem:
While there certainly will be an impact of some items on that ship, it should be argued that a civilization this advanced will not rely on plastic as the material of their products. The fabricator (one of the game's crafting stations), where you craft the basic versions of the drinkable water items in the game, materializes them, bottle and all, from midair using some magical 3D printing laser synthesizing. Even if the bottle was made from polymer (I personally think they are made from metal, looking at the model, or rather from some sort of completely organic material as you can craft a water bottle using a fish as input material only), trash would not be an issue. A good indicator for this is the buildable trash can in the game. Its description says that it "Permanently deconstruct[s] unwanted items and safely release[s] their constituent atoms into the atmosphere." The same can be said for the similar functioning "Nuclear Waste Disposal" which also permanently deletes Nuclear Waste from existence. This technology exists and Below Zero shows there to be an ongoing human presence on the planet, so accumulating waste shouldn't be a thing.
The radiation (could also insert dissolved chemicals) being a danger to the wildlife of 4546B:
As it has been said, the radiation as a result of the leaking drive core would dissipate after a while, should the breaches be sealed. So there is a finite amount of radioactive material/radiation actually finding its way into the environment, that means it will start to be diluted by the ocean. The map we are playing on in Subnautica is called The Crater and is about 2x2km in size according to the data bank entry (Fun Fact: The actual size of the map is almost double that) with the rest of the planet (excluding Sector Zero) being an ecological deadzone with only microscopic and leviathan life. That would mean that the ocean currents would transport the majority of the radioactive material out of this small inhabited crater's area in no time. Your example of the radioactive material from the Fukushima disaster making it all the way to Canada in a really short timespan proves my point. The radiation spreads out, therefore gets weaker and as there is no source for more unnatural radiation to come from anymore, the affected volume of the medium (the water) will be moved and spare the crater.
I sure hope we'll get a Subnautica episode about the extensive lore in the future.
But hey, that's just a theory. A comment-section theory :)
This needs to be top comment..
Dude, your English is incredible!
@@multihacker3695 yep
thank god someone who played the game, matpat although is really a great theorist, he never addresses these points or seems to make himself at the least like he played it.
this comment was more interesting than the entire episode
Not saying the crash was harmless but the alternative was essentially mass extinction, i believe a very painful 100% lethality rate. So i would say our presence had a net positive.
Subnautica fans: you are not the whole circus you are the entire company
Matpat:if you are close to the explosion you die instantly. Everybody with a brain : WELL NO F**KING SH*T
Every time I see the footage of a player swimming near the aurora my anxiety kicks in
*That's where THEORISTS has gone*
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Distant roaring intensifies.
And the you hear the roars. When you hear it it’s too late
Same bro
i used to have the same thing but I am a Subnautica sweat, basically invincible, so it's less scary to me
Important point (spoiler if anyone cares): blame the “Architects”. The Aurora was shot down, by an automated weapon.
Another important point is time. Time is compressed for gameplay reasons. After all when the Sunbeam attempts to Mount their rescue - they announce they’re more than a week away. It doesn’t take a week before they show.
& of course Sunbeam is also shot down, as was the Degassi years earlier. Humans didn’t doom that planet.
Oh and one more important thing you seem to have missed; the Aurora’s captain stayed aboard to attempt a controlled crash landing. This is why the damage doesn’t match what you claimed would wipe out the whole zone. She didn’t simply auger in at terminal velocity.
Inb4 “They quarantined the planet with the ship battery”
Can’t they have just adjusted the targeting range at the atmosphere instead of ships traveling near their planet?
Since when did captains of ships just nose down the instant they lose all power?
Ever heard of the plane crash in the hudson bay no?
@@dedelblute3946 C5 crash at Bagram. ua-cam.com/video/5fpxm0D46iQ/v-deo.html
Yes, Sully was able to make a controlled landing in the Hudson. & he was lucky to have made it. But that’s exactly my point. The Aurora was “set down” also.
Facts
WHAAAAAAT ? matpat ignoring crucial Information to make a baseless claim and call it a theory? NO WAAAAAY
MatPat did not play the game
MatPat: It’s just a game theory, his famous last words before quitting😢
Overall you've made some very compelling arguments, but I feel I have to point out two potential oversights. Most glaring is that in the audio and text logs you can find scattered around the game, it is revealed that the captain of the ship stayed on board until the very end to make a controlled decent. While not a proper landing, I feel it lends some credence as to why the crash zone is as small as it is. Perhaps it wasn't a proper or gentle landing, but neither was it a full force crash from orbital height. Coupled with a few other theories I've seen, the site of the crash may not have actually been shallow water. There may have been some small degree of dry land, which would explain why the terrain goes so far up to meet the ship nearly all the way around, even poking above the water for a sizable area around the shull of the Aurora.
Secondly, with the exception of the truly absurd number of water bottles required to survive, you don't encounter much actual plastic. There may even be reason to suggest the water bottles might not even be plastic as we understand it today. In some cases, they almost resemble more of a metallic container. Though I feel a lot was overlooked in the creation of the game on that point, as no materials are actually required to create the container the water goes into. The bottle just seems to materialize out of nothing during the crafting process.
Coupled with that, is the food seen on the ship and various cargo containers scattered throughout the environment. Most are not shown to have any individual containment or packaging of any kind (which is only stranger considering most are found stuffed into cargo boxes). Given the technological level portrayed, it's unlikely that food was brought pre-prepared from another world. And although the ingredients aren't shown or explained, the "Nutrient Block" in my opinion most closely resembles something akin to pemmican. A dry, often bready and nutrient right brick with a frankly mind-boggling shelf life that is often made mainly by survivalists today, and historically in many parts of the world. The logical conclusion is that given how technology has taken over, no one actually makes or stores these food bricks, but instead has them crafted at various and potentially specialized fabricators on the main ship (before the crash). As they can not be made by the player, either they were destroyed in the crash, or remain locked away into areas of the ship that could not be reached due to structural damage (or most likely, something simply overlooked in game development).
Did u really think someone will.read all.this
@@mrdark3011 the fact that your attention span is one word does not mean that everyone's is
@@mateuszweyna7309 hey btw
Have u heard of fnaf
Good point!
@@DJL_Pass ty
While I appreciate Matt's dedication to getting the facts, his information with regards to nuclear power and reactors is a bit off. I've been working in the nuclear power field for nearly a decade and its miscommunicated information like this that scares people. With out context of scale talking about radiation means very little. Explaining the values compared to chest x-rays, standard airplane flights or even bananas (yes they are radioactive) helps put things into context. Additionally the safety features in reactors are typically very well engineered and in the community we study what went wrong at both Fukushima and Chernobyl to ensure disasters like that never happen again.
Matt in the future it would be nice to see you do a collaboration with somebody from the nuclear power field to explain the differences from game to reality. A lot of peoples only knowledge of nuclear power comes from movies or games, which often depict it as bad. No technology is inherently good or bad, its about who we use it.
For example, sailors on board nuclear missile subs (meaning they are powered by a nuclear reactor, as are all active duty submarines in the US Navy) actually received less overall radiation exposure per year then your average person does due to spedning about half the year under water and thus not exposed to sunlight. Meaning living in a small metal tube with a nuclear reactor going 24/7 results in less radiation exposure then just taking a stroll outside on a sunny day.
@@7Seraphem7 just don’t go outside 😎
I was thinking that too. I had to write a report on multiple different occasions about which type of energy system I think would be best for the future of the planet, and it’s always been nuclear power. Of course, my ideal is nuclear fission, but that’s currently improbable. But out of all of them, nuclear has always been the most productive, currently powering like 70% France maybe I think fact check that, the most safe if handled appropriately and legally(Chernobyl was a massive fuckup of so many rules and regulations by Russia and what not to do), and has the most likely future in powering the earth. I’m sorry green people, but wind, solar, geothermal, etc just won’t power the earths current energy need, even together. And I’m sorry fossil people, but the earth can’t keep using it not only because it’s damaging to animals and people, but because it’s not renewable and we’re running out. Plus, green energy also damages the environment, we just don’t talk about it. Nuclear does by far, from my research, which is probably minuscule compared others, the least damage to the environment when handled properly.
Because it is futuristic technology it was most likely a fusion reactor. Or even better, if humans figured out a way to produce large amounts of antimatter efficiently, antimatter is the most efficient fuel possible (100% of the energy is released in antimatter-matter collisions) and if the storage system for the antimatter was even slightly damaged and even an extremely small amount of antimatter collided with regular matter it would cause a massive explosion of radiation. Also that would explain why the computer calls it a "quantum explosion".
I've been telling this for years to everyone I know that's scared of nuclear power (imo the best powersource we have atm): The likelihood of a nuclear reactor going full meltdown like chernobyl or Fukushima is virtually 0, Especially since then they have absolutely outdone themselves in terms of safety measures and security features. And addressing the topic of nuclear waste, I'm pretty sure that scientists around the globe are working on 2 new types of reactors: one where you can re-use spent fission material until it becomes something like the sun has with iron OR a thorium reactor, which would just produce a side product that we can use for construction etc.
I'm no expert on nuclear power or reactors, I'm just a student doing his A-levels. If I said anything incorrect, please do educate me.
Me: I'm killing the planet? No, the planet tried to kill me
MatPat,
Here's the thing, the player did not ask to be stranded on the ocean planet. The ship was shot down by the planet's enforcer. Players know this because of the Sunbeam. Life was taking a turn for the worst already on the planet. The Aurora was unlucky to cross into someone's quarantine zone. How did the player know. Radioactive material was already on the planet. We just added more, but we assisted the planet in the end.
I would like to point out that the water bottles in Subnautica are Biodegradable, because it states that the bottles are made out of organic matter (aka the bladderfish skin). how else do you think the bottle itself is made when you only give it a fish?
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I thought they would have been metal which I'm sure isnt as bad as plastic.
@@fastfirefox1475 metal can actually lead to an increase in the growth of ocean life. corals seem to like growing on metals
What were thetmade of before they had bladderfish available?
Although most of the water you find from the crash aren't the bladder fish made one
I like how the comment section is split into two groups. 1 group disproving Mats theory on the subject of doing more harm than good considering subnauticas world seems far more advance than us. The 2nd half is PTSD victims of the game saying "yeah I killed the planet what about it?"
Matpat might be at a lost for this theory, who knows. People are making amazing points of this theory and I honestly think this theory is wrong.
@@thegr8leo5theunfunnyman44 yea its wrong
@@thegr8leo5theunfunnyman44 that’s why it’s called a theory
Yeah this is probably another theory like his Hollow knight one
@@bat6684 A theory that can be debunked by someone like me who has never played the game and only seen a couple videos about it is not a "theory", it's talking bs.
This is maybe the only theory that Matpat got absolutely wrong, yes, the crash maybe did do something bad, but this video released when we already knew about Below Zero! And that game proves the planet is much bigger!
Let’s not forget the fact that the architects wanted to completely destroy the planet just to destroy the virus.
Not just the planet, the cannon building even has a bomb capable of wiping the whole solar system just to be safe 😂
Dam they arnt playin@@keanuortiz3766
They weren’t even trying to destroy the planet though…
You forgot to mention the only reason why there was so much trash was because the quarantine blaster shot both the aurora and the degassi ship, forcing them to crash land and not just land. The architects caused the infection to go world wide because they stole a sea dragon egg, and underestimated its motherly powers. Causing all the rest to go extinct. So it’s their fault not ours :)
Exactly. Can't blame humanity for this one. Blame the Architects that used the planet as a petri dish (the disease isn't even native to the planet), and set up an orbital cannon that doesn't even warn approaching ships that the planet is quarantined (and given hints in game, and especially the sequel the Architects were absolutely capable of communicating) before blasting them out of the sky.
Not only did we get shot down but were we even trying to land on the planet to begin with? It's been awhile since I last played but I was under the impression we were passing by and the laser shot us because we got too close to the planet.
@@eviljoshy3402 nah the aurora was trying to land on the planet, their alternate mission was to look for the other ship that mysteriously disappeared on the planet too
@@eviljoshy3402 We had a side mission to look for the missing in action Degasi which was *shot down by the Architects* without warning by passing over and scanning that planet without landing unless we found something. Then we got *shot down without warning by the Architects*. Then the Sunbeam picked up our distress signal and came to help.... only to be *shot down without warning... by the Architects*... I'm seeing a pattern here.
@@sonichegehodge5778 If I undestand the lore right, the Aurora was going to gravity swing around the planet while secretly dropping the search team onto the planet from orbit. I don't think the Aurora intended to actually land.
Remember the Sunbeam crew saying they've never parked a rig that big on a rock that small? Well, the Sunbeam is a lot smaller than the Aurora. I don't think the Aurora is even capable of landing on planets.
When he started talking about radiation the first thing that I thought was “well, the reapers seem to be doing pretty good, even though they’re RIGHT NEXT TO THE SHIP”
And bonesharks/sand sharks and misc safe shallows/kelp forest fish living right next to the crash zone in the radioactive area (which is larger than the crash zone biome)
Survival of the fittest :p
@@MrAskmannen Yeah, it really seems to only hurt you (which is a shame because reapers are so, so scary)
there is a theory that the aurora crashed right into reaper territory and they just learned to fend off radiation or are immune to it because of biological evolution
@@Halo786 animals cant learn to fend off radiation in a matter of hours/days, evolution doesnt work that way
If you found all of the PDAs it states that the pilot stayed behind on the ship to control the landing.
matpat: the planet is dead!
me who just kills leviathans for fun: i know, and i enjoy it.
Feels like a theory made to fit TeamSeas rather than an organic creation.
the entire video was made in the name of teamseas
Which is hilarious because subnautica literally already has environmental messaging he just straight up ignored.
@@vadernation1233yeah like I’ve said several times this guy probably didn’t get the “getting your feet wet” achievement
i feel like if i put 15 crab squids into the starter zone the environment would kinda die
"Happened to crash land"
*Gets shot down by alien Anti Space laser*
Seriously like play the game first then go over the lore
@@potatoman9872 ikr
Technically, there were a total of three crashes on 4546B. The Sunbeam, The Aurora, and the Degasi.
actually, there was the Mercury 2 before all that. i think it's in below zero
@@Garfium Sorry you are right. I have yet to play Below Zero so oops.
There may be some others not included in the current games that may be addressed ina future title.
I miss him already 😢
Wompity womp womp get over it already
Hi! As someone who’s played this game dozens of times, I have a *few* things to say about this theory:
While the area surrounding the crash site doesn’t seem as damaged as it should be, the surface is only a small part of this game. A lot of this game, if not most, takes place *below* the ocean floor in underwater caves. As for the batteries, most of the batteries found in this game are still sealed in Alterra containers when found. Even if the batteries were exposed, and their copper contents spilling into the ocean, copper is already a naturally occurring recourse on this planet’s ocean floor surface. Also, this theory says that tens of thousands of wreckage are unaccounted for because there would be a lot more debris than just the metal scraps, but look not further than the *entire thruster* that detached from the Aurora during its crash, or in space orbiting the planet seen as the Neptune 01 rocket leaves the planet. And even if the negative effects of the Aurora’s crash exceeded the map we are given to explore during the game, the game takes place on a thermal crater risen above the ocean floor. The ocean surrounding the crash site is just an empty abyss as seen by the sheer drop off at the edge of the map. One final note is that the *entire* planet was doomed to the Kharaa bacterium long before the Aurora’s crash, and while the Aurora killed a significant amount of flora and fauna living on the thermal crater, the player onboard cured the planet of the deadly Kharaa and, as we see in Below Zero, it seems to have worked given the only Kharaa we see in the sequel is on a frozen leviathan.
Sorry, not to be “that guy,” but I feel very passionately about this game and its story :)
I understand that the cause for this theory is greater than just a video game and it’s pretty cool you guys are raising money to clean our non-fictional oceans!
Waw, thanks for this long comment, with your points made it makes sense and it defenetly changed my opinion
This is true as I have played through the game multiple times too
I was thinking the same thing most items we find like food and electronics are sealed in boxes
yeah i was bouta say, this dont add up
@@Ethan-_-Lim yep 👍 just beat me to it lol
so...
who's gonna tell him that almost everything he said was harmful on the aruora was sealed in airtight, watertight boxes you find in game?
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My thoughts exactly!
Also it’s not earth how does he know how other plants and animals work
@@JohnPikeman wdym earth?
Most of those are brokenwhen you find them however for they are still in the box most of the time or at least nearby
But matpat, it isnt our fault as we werent the ones who made the giant laser that shot us at beginning
MatPat you make it sound like it was our choice to crash land on the Planet
"The Aurora's drive core will cause devastating damage to the planet's ecosystem if not contained in the next 24 hours"
_player does this._
_Planet not dead._
"To the *local* ecosystem"
This is the same PDA that kept track of how much Alterra property you "borrowed" and any precious minerals you acquired to launch you into debt for the rest of your life the minute you are rescued.
It still exploded, which is why you’re able to enter the Aurora in the first place. It would’ve gotten worse had the player not stopped it, shown by the radiation field increasing over time, but the initial explosion did a good amount of damage, as well as the amount of time it took for the player to fix the drive core
@@anahera6859 the planet was already via the disease, that's why it was quarantined you saved the planet when you helped the giant leviathan lady hatch her eggs
I Havnt completed below zero yet
@@hoaxgamingtrap You’re absolutely right (and neither have I btw), however this specific comment was talking about how the radiation damage to the nearby ecosystem is negated by the player fixing the drive core, when realistically, the initial explosion that let the player into the aurora already let out a ton of radiation.
"YOU doomed the planet"
Correction, the aliens weapons which shot down our ship doomed the planet
@Soldier [TF2] gets more clicks ig
you deserve way more likes
this is strangely hilarious
Truth
BROTHER I AM PINNED HERE
it's shot down at least two more ships too...
A.those bottles are biodegradable
B. Alterra most likely cleaned the aurora to cover it up
MatPat is right for thinking about the explosion and crash, but as others have said it was a controlled crash and the explosion was above water. 1: Copper and acidic mushrooms are part of the ecosystem before you got their.
2: Scrap metal that came off the ship helped some creatures like stalkers who sharpen their teeth off it.
3: The water bottles are biodegradable, the batteries are in containers and the food are nutrients blocks that are contained by the same containers that batteries are in.
4: Aliens that have been monitoring the planet and that were killed off shot down the ship. Not us, them.
Also somehow leviathan creatures and all other sea life can survive the radiation anyways.
This whole video essentially ignores the plot of the game, and the sheer technological advancement the future humans in this setting have made
I know right.
The captain goes down with his ship in order to make sure that it lands in one piece, and before the explosion the aurora is clearly in one piece. But Mat doesn't even acknowledge this, he acts as if the ship had been thrown at the planet instead of landing on it. Everything is downhill from there.
Yeah, also I'm pretty sure humanity won't still be using plastic in the 23rd century.
Humanity literally took-over the Milky Way and Andromeda in this world, so I think they stopped using plastic water bottles.
@@IbrahimAli-vt1fv we probably will, but subnautica bottles are made of organic materials, since the bladder fish skin goes somewhere
“You killed the ecosystem on planet 4546 b”
Me who almost had a good damn heart attack the time I turned around and a Reaper was charging me: good
@J͓̽u͓̽l͓̽i͓̽a͓̽n͓̽a͓̽_______💋 no.
the reaper:you've killed me.....
everyone:good
Not to mention the fact that we didn’t kill it. The Architects did with their giant cannon and diseases.
@@AstroSalamander Just report it, there's nothing else to do about it but hope UA-cam does something.
@@mimikyu4327 oh yeah i know its just fun to occasionally let my megachad energy flow a tiiiiny bit
9:28 actually copper is only dangerous if ingested at big amounts, those batteries shouldn't be a big deal
We see the tsunami in the trailer but not the game, although, it was most likely an after-wave.
In the game you wake up 8-10 hours after the crash that's why
I feel the need to point out some flaws in the expelled supply estimate. First of all, all of the supplies of the Aurora weren't expelled by the crash and explosion, as you can still find a lot in the areas of the ship that you can reach, with an unknown quantity within the inaccessible areas. Secondly, the Aurora wasn't the first ship to crash. The Degasi crashed almost a decade before that, and there aren't catastrophes stemming from that. Then there's also the fact that flora and fauna can be absurdly adaptable and resilient. You've got a pair of leviathans patrolling in close proximity to a lethal radioactive source seemingly unharmed, not to mention lizards that bathe in LAVA. Heck, you don't even need to look far to see strange adaptations. Tardigrades, for example, can survive radiation, extreme pressures both high and low, extreme temperatures, and even being exposed to outer space.
And as others have pointed out, the Aurora's captain stayed until the end, attempting an emergency landing, as well as the fact we don't know what the crash zone previously looked like, but is suggested to have prehaps been landmass (or at least very shallow).
It's also not completely Aurora's fault, the Architects didn't really plan things through when they just stuck a giant gun on the planet that shoots anything that comes close, because of "quarantine", as opposed to setting up a forcefield or something.
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I was about to say it was mostly because of the architects for putting a massive gun that shoots anything that gets close
its not that the architects didnt plan correctly, the gun was supposed to strand you on the planet as to prevent spreading of the bacteria to other planets. they thought dooming that planet was better then letting many planets get infected. but yeah a forcefield would be much better, but would also inspire hypotethical "space pirates" to break through it
@@Chromus505 then make laser with a range that doesn't extend past the forcedfield
Aurora: **explodes and kills everything in the area**
Reaper Leviathan: yo where did all my friends go?
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The reaper leviathans don’t live there they’re indigenous to literally everywhere else you find them the only reason the leviathans are anywhere near the Aurora is because they’re attracted to sound and I’m pretty sure a spaceship crashing into the ocean followed by a huge explosion is pretty loud
@@xiswarmin the Aurora landed on a island (maybe) and where do we know reapers hang out?
@@xiswarmin I don't know if that's at all correct. Ghost Leviathans live everywhere (as clearly shown if you're dumb enough to venture into the Abyss despite PDA's warning), Reaper Leviathans seem to inhabit specifically the crater (as they are shown in multiple deeper biomes, not just around Aurora), and they are noticeably smaller than the Ghost Leviathans, so they would likely become the food for Ghosts were they to occupy the same biome as them
@@NekoiNemo first of all I never chinned the ghost secondly I meant every other biome you find the reapers
You forgot the numerous other shot down ships, the Degasi being a ship that you showed crashing but never spoke about, that leaves 2 large crashed ships, I doubt the Degasi ship was as big as the Aurora but it's still very large. There's also the sunbeam that gets shot down in game, it's very small compared to the Degasi and Aurora as it's more of a rescue ship, but the point of there being a MINIMUM of 3 different named space crafts that were shot out of space only to crash land on 4546B
"The radiation probably killed all the animals in the vicinity immediately"
Cave Crawlers, Reapers, Sandsharks:
Matpat believing that Alterra would feed its employees 3 meals a day, smh...
Ikr?! 😂
I mean, yeah?
Based on the records we find, this ship sounded almost like a luxury cruise. Some of them were literally there basically on vacation I think. It's not like they wouldn't feed their employees. FOOD is the one thing that's plentiful when you're looking around this ship. There's even a food COURT. They probably make you BUY all the food, but they still HAVE it.
@@Selena-hz8yc Begone from this holy land.
@@Selena-hz8yc reloads shotgun with cleansing intent
@@haku8135 yeah. It had a zero G gym as well. Otto had a cafe!
I’m just gonna be honest, this theory was disappointing compared to the rest. As someone who loves subnautica as a game I’m sad that game theory didn’t do it justice.
It wasn't even a theory. It was a rant blaming the Aurora for all manner of things that it isn't and blaming the players for it crashing. He is comparing an oil tanker sinking and a nuclear spaceship being shot down and having a controlled fall as the captain kept steering. The water bottles are also clearly metal. They don't float around. The player repairs the drive core and cures the Khaara bacteria. His misinformed episode is fear mongering and going off what he thought should have happened. He doesn't know the state of Auroras engines during the fall. They could have been off. He doesn't mention it was will being steered either. This one is a shame to the channel because its not well informed or even a theory
This was just a woke PSA telling common folk to stop littering. Problem is, It's the government that is dumping the vast majority of the garbage into the ocean. This video had no other purpose but to push the "climate crisis" agenda. nothing more
It was kinda disappointing.. I though he'd be diving more deeper with subnautica's lore... I almost seemed like he did this for the sponsors he have... (don't get me wrong its a noble thing to do but... kinda misplaced here. Also fun fact: my uncle is a captain and he does ocean cleanup in SEA despite the territorial dispute)
He clearly doesnt know anything about this game. He really should do a bit of research before he does videos. Hes just here for the ad revenue
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Video topic: We caused the death of 4546B
Video script: proceeds to talk about earths pollution more than game lore
Counter theory: The reason the aurora didn’t do nearly as much damage as it would’ve done might be because it the descent was semi controlled, we know the captain went down with it while trying to attempt a controlled descent, so maybe that’s why
I think matpat forgot the part where a giant gun on the planet shot the ship down and caused us to crash in the first place so it's not entirely our fault
its his persona 4 theory all over again
@Aisuru-Tokyo💕 sorry but epic gamers dont monster bait on November
Yeah. The ship crashing was not our fault. It was the ancients who have doomed the planet because they made the gun. Maybe it was a good thing they died. Besides they all think we are interior anyway
Yeaaaaa, it's not our fault at all. Alterra, as we learn, is a shitty company that exploits any and everything for it's resources, but that's not relevant to the occasion. The Aurora just happens to be shot down while passing by a planet on a route not involving it and get shot done by a gun made by an alien race that has done only harm for the planet.
@@lucaswold5327 The reason they made the gun was for a quarantine they thought the planet was a lost cause and installed it so it couldn't spread
Matpat in this video: hes got the spirit, but maybe he needs a little more knowledge about the game before assuming trash contaminates this crater on 4546B.
#Teamseas
I agree with you. When i saw this on r/subnautica about mat basically just throwing away the basic evidence of what really happened is frieghtening
@@chessnutz6314 just like how alterra said about the secret aurora mission... i think i just found something about alterra and mat...
@@Pyth_Gamig1324 lol, you looking for mat senpai?
Yeah he forgets there was a ship before the Aroura and how all the plastic bottle on-ship are in sealed crates and the Aroura's leak being seal unlike Chernobyl's
Funny that he mentions Below zero in the end. As many others already said, the Degasi vessel already crash landed on the planet 10 years before the Aurora and didn't effect the planet much.
Well...
THE MERCURY II CRASH LANDED ON THE PLANET 20 BLOODY YEARS BEFORE THE DEGASI. And the planet is completely fine :)
Something to consider is that there is a huge “ecological deadzone” around the starting area
Also just about if not absolutely all food eaten by passengers is synthesised, as shown by an audio prompt when you first cook fish so when it comes to food packaging, there would probably be significantly less packaging from that.
Plus we’re assuming that 4546b has similar proportions to earth, for all we know that ecological deadzone could reach past the edge of the radioactive area resulting in little effect on the rest of the planet
It does. The deadzone is the whole planet. The crater is all that's left due to the fact it has a weak strand Enzime 42 constantly applied to it from the Emperor Leviathan into vents and spread thru peepers. The emperor leviathan is dying and when they do it will be the end of the ecosystem. We help hatch it's babies - which in turn ensures the survival of the system - since they are species that are very resistant to radiation - but not immune, and we plug the radiation leak - which lets the radiation to just spread and dilute itself into the dead zone that has only bacteria and ghost leviathans anyways - and even then probably only near the crater - since they rely on it to reproduce.
Considering how deep other theories dig, I'm kinda surprised how shallow this one was. From replicators removing the need for most packaging to the fact that the water bottles are made of organic materials to the relatively tiny amount of material the Aurora brought to the planet to the 'semi-controlled' landing the captain achieved to minimize impact damage. The crash would certainly have an impact on the ecology for sure but you could probably dump 100 Aurora's onto the planet and have less impact on 4546B than we've had on Earth and we're still around (though for how much longer is debatable).
I get you were making a tie-in episode but it was disappointing that it was done with such a surface-level theory on a great game.
True, true.
he needed da moni
at least its not his superhot theory
Right, if he wanted to shove in an ecology theory, he could have played that crappy Endless Ocean game and talked about almost the same stuff. That would make sense since that game actually takes place in the human world
He uses this game for nothing but a dpringboard to talk about what he wanted to talk about.
Earths ocean polution problem.
Which is something that needs to be talked about!
But there are much better games and themes to use as a springboard then subnautica.
Y’all say there are better games for him to do this theory with but let’s be real. You probably would not have watched this without subnautica’s name slapped on the title of the vid.
Game Theory: You killed the ocean in Subnautica
Ghost Leviathans: are you sure about that?
what about the dugasi, he didnt even mention it
The Ghost leviathans hatch and grow within the cave systems, then move out to the dead zone once they grow too big, so that cycle would be disrupted as well.
@@thestrategistbrit the Degasi was a very small ship. It carried only 6 people.
@@kuparisiipi5173 well it wouldn't have a big effect on them because they hatch in the lost river which is 600 meters down.
@@kuparisiipi5173 not to mention that they are filter feeders, so with microorganism populations disrupted the ghost leviathans would be hurting
most of the toxic stuff and waste protaply went to the void and space ships in far future protaply dont have as much toxic stuff, also because of the void the disaster is conteined in the map so it dosnt leave the creater.also water botles are made of metal so they dont fload
Well then the Aurora crashes as you said it'll destroy the entire map. But not the other sectors, Subnautica: Below Zero takes place in sector 0.
I like how Matpat sometimes makes really in-depth theories about games while proving that he either didn't play the game or didn't pay any attention to the lore
these kinds of things don't happen often but when they do it's the most entertaining thing on earth
You know you made a horrible theory if a chaos demon says the comment above
Yeah he did the same thing with hollow knight, mossbag has much more in-depth and accurate videos about it
He says "we" killed the planet whenever "we" were shot down by the Precursors. If anything, it's their fault for shooting us down and spreading this raditation. We had no clue about what would be on the planet, and we thought that the gravity sling manuver would work. Whoopsie do, it didn't and the Precursors shot us down.
It's ironic that he brings up Enzyme 42 but doesn't pay attention to the huge factor of the Q.E.P.
Does he even make the theory? I thought he just rips them off Reddit and takes credit for them.
For this one he definitely didn't play the game, the whole food/water packaging thing is completely debunked within minutes of playing the game
I have to heavily disagree with this it’s not the player’s fault it goes back further than that, you forgot to mention a few things.
The Aurora would of never crashed if it wasn’t shot down by the “Quarantine Enforcement Platform” made by the what GameTheory called “The Architects” I’m going to call them the “precursors” because that’s what I’m used to saying.
Okay anyways the Aurora never would have stopped by planet 4546B the planet subnautica takes place in if the Degasi spacecraft before was never shot down. The Aurora’s primary mission was to construct phase gates, but it’s second was to search for the survivors of the Degasi years earlier similar to how Sunbeam tries to rescue you in the earlier parts of the game. Similar to Sunbeam and the Aurora the Degasi was shot down by Quarantine Enforcement Playform which was made by the precursors.
The precursors made the facility to prevent any incoming and outgoing spacecraft from carrying the Kharaa Bacteria outside the planet. So technically it’s the precursor’s fault not the player’s fault also how would the player be at fault for the ship crashing?
Technically the Quarantine Enforcement Platforn never would have been activated if the Kharaa bacteria never escaped from the Disease research facility made by the precursors when it was attacked by a sea dragon leviathan and then collapsed to the sea floor.
That might make you think that no, it was that leviathan’s fault, but actually no. The precursors took one of the leviathan’s eggs and then leviathan was trying to get it back and ended up realizing the bacteria, forcing the precursors to activate the Quarantine Enforcement Platform leading to the events seen in the game.
Sorry if that was a long one.
Perfectly explained
MatPat really didn't do his research. 🤣
Soooooooooo
blame the stupid xenos?
Blame the Xenos
@@Sly-Moose never does
Matpat, love the videos across all four of your channels but this one really is a miss, it just feels like an ad for Team Seas and that you didn’t do any research besides glance at the wiki. Subnautica is an amazing game that answers all of the negative points that you bring up about our impact, the plastic packaging is most likely not plastic and fully degradable as it can be fabricated with organic materials, much of the Aurora’s food was grown in grow beds meaning that your figure for the MRE packaging for 3 years is very off, all the resources from the ship like batteries are also locked in watertight containers so that they won’t have any effect on an ecosystem that already thrives with many of these heavy metals found within the environment. You also fail to mention the 2 ships that have crashed prior to the Aurora 1 being the Degasi and the other a ship that we see in Below Zero that crashed before that! The sunbeam also gets shot down and the ecosystem adapts to the metals and other resources that all the ships have left behind over the decades the wrecks have been there. Finally the first Subnautica game takes place in a small volcanic crater about 2x2km with a void thousands of meters deep inhabited by massive filter feeding leviathans and nothing else meaning that much of the radiation and pollution will be carried far away from any delicate ecosystems, and if you beat the game you can even see that there is a whole planet of water and environments meaning that the Aurora’s controlled crash would not have wiped out the whole map, and most of the sediment and debris would have gone into the void. Sorry for the rant but this video was a sell out and a waste of an amazing game for a bad and not thought out theory
I think you would like to know, you showed the Degasi crashing, not the Aurora at around 3:18
Love you Matt, but I have some holes in your theory/ comments:
1. All of the plastics we find, and things like food and batteries, are store in titanium storage crates. So unless opened by the player on purpose, they shouldn't get out and contaminate the water
2. As the Aurora crashes, when you listen to the Black Box recording, you can hear him say that he's trying a "controlled decent." The obviously doesn't work completely, but it may account for the lack of damage we see to other areas of the map.
3. The entire playable area of Subnautica is called The Crater, since it was a volcano, and now is a caldera, ie how we have a Lava Lakes zone in the world. I think this would stop a lot of damage from spreading outside of the playable area, and especially stop much damage from occurring to the rest of the planet
I think the species most at risk is the Ghost Leviathan, the ones that live in the Void specifically. Since they generally eat microorganisms.
In the logs you find later in the game, you find that this is the only living area on the planet due to the peepers spreading the cure enzyme through alien water vents
@@happsk1211 which turns out to be false because sector 0 is still fine
plus, you quickly manage to stop the radiation spill of the ship and the packaging of the food is probably not made out of plastic giving that there are LITERAL MOLLECULE FABRICATORS, so cellulose would just be much more cheap
Great point